Aliasing 兹塔 → moexuan
Link to alias

Reason:

Transliteration for ease of typing when entering it. Also add in moeshotaxuan, which is their username on IB]Moexuan is their username on Hiccears. Moeshotaxuan is their username on InkBunny. So proposing use of a name that can actually be typed with a western keyboard for obvious ease of tagging.

That is definitely not transliteration, I believe.
"moe" is japanese for "萌え".
"xuan" is a part of artist's chinese name, I don't know the original word, but I can say it is not either "兹" or "塔".

ZaSigma4 said:
That is definitely not transliteration, I believe.
"moe" is japanese for "萌え".
"xuan" is a part of artist's chinese name, I don't know the original word, but I can say it is not either "兹" or "塔".

Oops. I misassumed. In any case, I saw another asian artist refer to them as "their friend moexuan", so I assume the "shota" in the middle is not part of the artist's name as they see it.

Circeus said:
Oops. I misassumed. In any case, I saw another asian artist refer to them as "their friend moexuan", so I assume the "shota" in the middle is not part of the artist's name as they see it.

Friends often refer to each other informally, which would mean the inclusion of shota would be proper.

Just searched google, looks like "moexuan" is being used in this odd website.
http://www.hiccears.com/artist-profile.php?apid=245

So the alias is valid.

Right. I'd forgotten about it.

Can we get a decision on this? I'm still uploading art from IB/hiccears under the moexuan tag b/c it's just WAY more convenient.

I know next to nothing about translating Chinese, but the Inkbunny nick should work fine.

Machine translation for 兹塔 seems to be zita, though. Which has been used a few times.

兹塔 is his name on pixiv

Nothing else matters.

Delian said:
兹塔 is his name on pixiv

Nothing else matters.

Yeah, but if we can use a name that can be typed with a normal keyboard, everyone wins. And he DOES use moexuan in several places.

Circeus said:
Yeah, but if we can use a name that can be typed with a normal keyboard, everyone wins. And he DOES use moexuan in several places.

if we are absolutely sure 兹塔 is zita, I have no problem with this. I can't really investigate it since I don't have a pixiv account.

I wasn't objecting to the alias. I was only mentioning it because there was discussion about transliteration, which doesn't matter :o